John Little McClellan

John Little McClellan (25 February 1896-28 November 1977) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AR 6) from 3 January 1935 to 3 January 1939 (succeeding David D. Glover and preceding William F. Norrell) and a US Senator from Arkansas (D) from 3 January 1943 to 28 November 1977 (succeeding G. Lloyd Spencer and preceding Kaneaster Hodges Jr.).

Biography
John Little McClellan was born in Sheridan, Arkansas in 1896, and he became a lawyer in 1913. He served in the US Army during World War I, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant. From 1920 to 1926, he served as the city attorney of Malvern, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1935 to 1939. In 1938, he unsuccessfully challenged Hattie Wyatt Caraway during the US Senate, but his 1942 campaign to succeed the retiring G. Lloyd Spencer was successful. He supported Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunt, the prosecution of Mafia leaders, and racial segregation, signing the 1954 "Southern Manifesto" in opposition to the US Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. He served in the Senate until his death in 1977.